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  • Letters to a Young Theologian

    Letters to a Young Theologian

    In this volume, Van der Westhuizen has assembled an outstanding and diverse array of theologians who offer their wisdom and reflection on what it means to be a theologian. Each contributor's brief letter considering the vocation is as unique as its author. Together the letters form a rich symphony on the art and craft of being a theologian.

    9781506478791

    $19.00

  • Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity

    Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity

    Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako presses all Christians to question their own theological commitments. He does so by rethinking Christian identity in light of cultural identity and the shortcomings of colonialism. Bediako's quest to be both African and Christian informs what it means to be Christian in a secularized Europe and North America.

    9781506480459

    $29.00

  • Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross

    Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross

    Many books on the Christian doctrine of atonement have been published in recent years. Some point out the difficulties of traditional atonement theories; others...

    9780800663506

    $29.00

  • Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth

    Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth

    In Refugia Faith, Debra Rienstra explores nature's refugia--places where life endures in a crisis--and applies this model to faith. Drawing from theology, nature writing, and science, she examines how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt for a climate-altered planet.

    9781506473796

    $23.99

  • An Asian Introduction to the New Testament

    An Asian Introduction to the New Testament

    As the Asian context is the cradle of many of the world's religions, the New Testament writings should be interpreted and reinterpreted by accepting their pluriform religious and ideological aspects. Moreover, the existence of multiple Christian denominations demands a doctrinally and conceptually balanced interpretation of the Scriptures. This book will demonstrate inclusive biblical claims within multireligious and multidenominational contexts.

    9781506462691

    $39.00

  • Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos

    Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos

    Relying on his upbringing as a Baptist, his doctoral work in experimental nuclear physics and gamma-ray astronomy, and his ordination to the gospel ministry, Paul Wallace weaves a book unlike any other in faith-and-science literature. 

    9781506401416

    $18.00

  • God Beyond Gender: Feminist Christian God-Language

    God Beyond Gender: Feminist Christian God-Language

    The Christian use of God-language has become a matter of debate among laypersons, theologians, worship leaders, and others. Such debates are often heated,...

    9780800627744

    $24.00

  • Islam: An Introduction for Christians

    Islam: An Introduction for Christians

    These and many other questions are answered in this informative introduction to Islam. Christians of all denominations will find reliable and up-to-date...

    9780806625836

    $19.99

  • How to Think Theologically: Third Edition

    How to Think Theologically: Third Edition

    This book equips readers for the vibrant work of making religious sense of concrete life situations.

    9780800699321

    $19.00

  • Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches

    Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches

    Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents short pieces from some...

    9780800631864

    $19.00

  • Christian Faith: The Basics

    Christian Faith: The Basics

    Walt Kallestad, the senior pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the United States, knows and understands spiritual seekers and new Christians....

    9780806633978

    $8.99

  • A Complicated Pregnancy: Whether Mary Was a Virgin and Why It Matters

    A Complicated Pregnancy: Whether Mary Was a Virgin and Why It Matters

    The virgin birth is a much-loved story in the Christian tradition, but many theologians dispute the tradition of the virginal conception on both historical and scientific grounds. A Protestant theologian, husband, and father, Kyle Roberts was growing unsure of his belief in Mary's virginity. So he set out to investigate the virgin birth from every angle. A Complicated Pregnancy records his fascinating journey through the evidence and the myth, through history, biblical interpretation, and church politics. His conclusion surprised him, and it will surprise you, too.

    9781506406244

    $16.99

  • Bitten by a Camel: Leaving Church, Finding God

    Bitten by a Camel: Leaving Church, Finding God

    Kent Dobson climbed Mount Sinai in search of the God who had eluded him. Instead he got bitten by a camel. The senior pastor of one of the most prominent churches in America, Dobson was growing disillusioned with his faith. One Sunday, he preached, "I don?t know what the word God means anymore." He left the church, but his quest for God became more intense than ever. On the foundation of Jesus and the Bible, Dobson reconstructs a faith that is life-giving and true?true to himself and true to God.

    9781506417745

    $22.99

  • Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century

    Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century

    Peterson places the questions of the church's identity and mission into a conversation with the primary ecclesiological paradigms of the past century.

    9780800698812

    $26.00

  • The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

    The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

    Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by naïve and outdated exegesis. In another fully original...

    9780800698522

    $49.00

  • My Name Is Child of God ... Not "Those People"

    My Name Is Child of God ... Not "Those People"

    This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known...

    9780806656243

    $14.99

  • Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition

    Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition

    An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first...

    9780800638269

    $49.00

  • The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.

    $28.00

  • Deuteronomy for the Church: Who We Are, What God Requires

    Deuteronomy for the Church: Who We Are, What God Requires

    Deuteronomy's core theology expressed in the Shema forms the structure of the book: What does it mean to "hear"? Who is "all Israel"? How does the identity of the one Lord shape ethics? The competence to be God's people, to know God, and to do God's will comes only through hearing the transforming Word of God in Scripture.

    9781506474755

    $36.00

  • Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    A hallmark of American Black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. Stony the Road We Trod accomplishes this--and much more. This expanded edition contains a new introduction and three new essays that underscore the historic importance of this book for a new generation.

    9781506472041

    $8.00

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